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Auction: 19015 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 1315

British Guiana
The "Coventry" Collection Featuring 1852-76 Ship Stamps

1860-76 Issues, Covers
To The United Kingdom
1864 (23 Sept.) envelope from Demerara to Exeter, bearing 1863 thin paper, perf. 12½-13 8c. pink strip of three each cancelled "A03", just tying the right-hand stamp and with London Paid datestamp (14.10) below, Demerara and Exeter datestamps on reverse. R.P.S. Certificate (1994). Photo

Note: Probably carried on the RMSP "Thames" to St. Thomas which left Demerara on 24 September
provenance:
Christie's Robson Lowe, May 1995

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Sold for
£850